Free Agency And The Elias Rankings
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007In settling the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, players and owners agreed to a system for ranking major league players for the purpose of determining the compensation to be received by a team when it loses a player through free agency.
The settlement to the bargaining impasse included a formula that would be applied [...]
Ortiz Is Only Seventh Player To Earn A Perfect Score In The Elias Rankings… Lowell Bests A-Rod Among AL 3B
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007As a part of the 1981 MLB strike settlement, players and owners agreed to use the Elias Sports Bureau to rank major league players for the purpose of determining the compensation to be received when teams lose players through free agency. The formula that was agreed upon in those negotiations is applied to all [...]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007The show of love and respect given to Curt Schilling yesterday at the rolling rally was truly amazing… I, like most of you, am hoping that the Red Sox will bring Curt back for his final season in professional baseball.
At a time when we are celebrating his extraordinary four-year stint in Boston (and lamenting [...]
As Soon As The Celebration Finished, The Front Office Was Already Thinking About 2008
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007The Red Sox organization celebrated its seventh world championship (its second in four years) with Red Sox Nation yesterday afternoon. The rolling rally — from Fenway Park to City Hall Plaza — thrilled more than a million fans on a beautiful late-October afternoon in Boston. As soon as the victory lap around [...]
Little Resignation Opens Door For Torre In L. A. As Girardi Is Hired In NYC
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Grady Little has resigned as manager of the LA Dodgers, creating an opening for Joe Torre.
General Manager Ned Colletti said that he knew resignation was on Little’s mind at the end of the season as the Dodgers faded from the playoff picture and clubhouse unrest developed between the team’s veterans and young players… he said: [...]
Schilling, Three Other Sox Players File For Free Agency
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Just a couple of hours after stepping off the duck boat at the conclusion of the rolling rally, Red Sox pitcher (or is it, former-Red Sox pitcher?) Curt Schilling filed for free agency this afternoon.
Schilling and three other Red Sox players were among forty-three major league players who filed their paperwork today… that [...]
Images From The Rolling Rally
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007The John Hancock Building proudly displays the world championship banner
One million fans turned out for the Sox victory parade
Big Papi showed off the World Series trophy…
…while Big Pappy showed off his dance moves
Mr & Mrs Matsuzaka enjoyed their first rolling rally
Jason Varitek made it clear how he would handle one of Theo Epstein’s free agent [...]
Schilling Writes Letters To Teammates.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007At this point, Curt Schilling isn’t sure if he has played his last game in a Red Sox uniform or whether he will be back in Boston for a fifth (and final) season in 2008. His contract has now run its course, and he is eligible to declare himself a free agent over the [...]
Red Sox Parade In Boston TODAY
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Members of Red Sox Nation can join in the celebration today as the City of Boston will host another “rolling rally” for the 2007 WORLD CHAMPION Boston Red Sox. The festivities begin at noontime in the vicinity of Fenway Park (see map below)… it will begin at the corner of Kilmarnock and Boylston streets, [...]
Report: Yankees Offer Managerial Post To Girardi… Mattingly To Walk
Monday, October 29th, 2007Joe Girardi’s agent, Steve Mandell, told ESPN-Radio’s Andrew Marchand that the Yankees offered their managerial job to his client this morning: “The Yankees have offered Joe the opportunity to become their next manager. Discussions are ongoing”.
Girardi, whose contract is expected to be in the range of three-years and $6 million, was in Denver [...]
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